Method of repairing turn-shoes.



W. A. OWENS.

, METHOD OF REPAIRING TURN SHOES.

APPLICATION mm JULY 30. I911- Patented 0015.30, 1917.

WILLIAM A. OWENS, OF ST. LOUIS, MISSOURI, ASSIGNOR 0F ONE-HALF TO LUNGSTRAS DYEING & CLEANING COMPANY, or s'r. LOUIS MISSOURI, A coaronn'rron or" MISSOURI.

Specification of Letters Patent.

METHQD 0F REPAIRING TURN-SHOES."

Application filed July 30, 1917. Serial No. 183,462.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, WILLIAM A. Owens, a citizen of the United States of America, residing in the city of St. Louis, State of Missouri, have invented a certain new and useful Method of, Repairing Turn-Shoes, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates primarily to methods or processes for the repair of shoes, and has for its object the provision of a series of steps by which standard shoe-stitching machines may be employed to affix a new sole to what are technically known as turn shoes, in distinction to the slow and tedious method of hand-stitching which is now followed in such work.

In the accompanying drawing, wherein like numerals refer to like parts throughout the several views, Figure 1 represents a turn shoe with the new half-sole secured at one end to the shank of the shoe by a transverse row of small tacks; Fig. 2 depicts the next step in the process, namely, the reversal of the vamp through the upper; Fig. 3 depicts the third step, namely, the reversal of the solo in like manner, Fig. 4 depicts the following step, namely, the insertion of a specially formed last; Fig. 5 is a cross section taken along line 55 of Fig. I; and Fig. 6 is a side elevation of said last.

Heretofore the resoling of a pair of turn shoes (as distinguished from shoes made by the welt or McKay method) has required the outlay of considerable time and efl'ort due to the fact that the removal of the worn sole left the vamp entirely without support so that the new sole could not be secured thereto by stitching machines, but only by the slow process of hand-stitching which served to materially increase the cost of the repair.

As one experienced in the art of shoe manufacture and repair I have sought to evolve a method whereby the resoling of such shoes could be'accomplished as quickly and as economically as the resoling of welt or McKay shoes and without the aid of any machinery other than the standard appli ance commonly known as an inseamer. In the practice of this inventlon, the worn sole is first removed from the vamp and the Copies of this patent may be obtained for new sole 1 fastened'to the shankof the shoe by a transverse. row of small tacks'"de noted at 3, the outer or wearing surface of the sole being indicated by 4 and the outer surface of the vamp being indicated by 5. Following this step, the vamp is turned inwardly behind the sole as the parts appear In Fig. 1, forced upward between the upper as shown in Fig. 2 and then pulled out wardly and completely reversed so as to expose the lining which is' denoted by 6,

afterwhich the sole is reversed in like manner so as to bring its inner surface 7 uppermost as shown in Fig. 3.

These steps having been accomplished I next insert the specially formed half-last 8 within the vamp as'illustrated in Fig. 4,

so that its inclined surface 9 lies substantlally flush with the shank 2 and its upper squared endlO abuts the inner surface vl1 of the heel 12. In this manner the last is virtually locked against displacement and by reference to Figs. .5 and 6 it will be noted that its sole or bottom 13 is sharply beveled as at 14 so as topermit the insertion of the machine-driven needle by which the sole of the shoe is finally stitched to the vamp as indicated at 15. Thereafter the vamp and sole are forced backward through the upper and thus reversed so as to expose their wearing surfaces, the repair being then completed and the shoe ready for use.

Having thus fully described the method of my invention, What I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent is The method of resoling turn shoes and slippers which consists in first securing an extremity of the new sole to the shank of the shoe or slipper, next reversing the vamp and sole so as to expose the inner surfaces of these parts, then inserting a half-last be- I, I

tween the heel of the shoe or slipper and the toe thereof, next securing the sole to the vamp by machine-stitching, and finally reversing the sole and vamp so as to expose the wearing surfaces of these parts.

W. KEANE SMALL, JULIA M. LAURENT.

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